Archives for March, 2016
Our Messy Emotions and Being Creative
Does being calm or happy help us be creative? Does feeling sad or anxious always inhibit creative thinking?
Some researchers find that "mixing together both positive and negative emotions can help facilitate creativity" - as noted in the book "Wired to Create" - more on that below.
One example of a creative person with an emotionally complex life is humanitarian, actor and author Ashley Judd, who is also a United Nations / UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.
Take A Shower or Watch Cows To Be Creative
Do you get creative ideas in the shower? Do you have any routines or schedules to help encourage your creative thinking and work? Many artists do.
But E. B. White (Stuart Little; Charlotte's Web, among other titles) cautioned:
"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."
Quoted in her Brain Pickings post The Daily Routines of Great...
Psychological Androgyny and Creative People
"A writer should be woman-manly or " Virgina Woolf
Creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains that psychological androgyny refers to "a person’s ability to be at the same time aggressive and nurturant, sensitive and rigid, dominant and submissive, regardless of gender.
"A psychologically androgynous person in effect doubles his or her repertoire of responses and can interact with the world in terms of a much richer and varied spectrum of opportunities.
Does Being Neurotic Help Us Be More Creative?
Woody Allen admits he has “a lot of neurotic habits. I don’t like to go into elevators, I don’t go through tunnels, I like the drain in the shower to be in the corner and not in the middle.”
With so much psychology related material in the news and culture, we may be especially concerned with whether our behavior is a disorder, or normal - whatever that is - and if our eccentricities can help...
